Staff are more motivated by compliments and pizza than they are by small cash bonuses, an author has claimed.
Dan Ariely explains carried out research on motivation with employees at an Intel factory in Israel.
Over the space of a week, every morning workers received one of three emails, promising a different reward if they completed their workload for the day.
On the first day of the study, free pizza proved to be the biggest motivator, with productivity levels 6.7 per cent higher than those in a control group, compared with the offer of cash or a ‘thank you’.
We asked some people in Nottingham what helps them get up for work in the morning.
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